President highlights freedom of speech challenge in AI era
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday stressed the need to ensure freedom of speech but also to present correct, factual information in the ever-changing environment of...
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Police: rise in distribution of sexual material through social media by minors
Police on Wednesday urged parents to be extra vigilant after seeing a rise in the distribution of sexual material through social media by minors. In...
Facebook’s ‘Instagram for children’ plans face fierce backlash
by Kyriacos Nicolaou Facebook-owned Instagram has received a raft of fierce criticism soon after its announcement of a children’s version of the popular image and...
No charges will be brought against woman who called community leader useless
Charges will not be brought against a British mother for calling a local community leader ‘useless’ in the comments section of a Facebook post, according...
Bill tabled allowing police to track down identity of social media users
The government has tabled a bill that would enable law enforcement to track down the identity of people posting on social media platforms, allowing police...
The beauty of nature
For one local photographer, what can be seen in the great outdoors makes life worth living, although he fears the change inflicted on it by...
Around 9% of young people addicted to social media
Nearly one in ten young people are addicted to social media while one in four were found to have generalised problematic internet use, according to...
Arteta calls on social media firms to help stop online abuse of players
Social media companies must take responsibility to help stop the online abuse of players as their mental health can be affected if they are targeted,...
Woman in Yiolitis Twitter spat plans to sue
The woman whose home was raided by police late last month over a parody account on Twitter mocking Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis has confirmed she...
Facebook sparks fresh privacy concerns
Facebook is being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after allegations of misleading and deceiving the public. Seven years after the...
Follow me! The rise of the influencer
Social media and influencers feed off each other in a relationship that many young people crave for themselves Panayiotis, aged nine, wants to become...
Pinterest moving towards online events feature
Image-sharing and social media service Pinterest will soon add an online events feature to its platform, according to recently surfaced reports. Reverse engineer Jane Manchun...
Twitter unveils new feature
Earlier this week, social media network Twitter announced that it would be unrolling a new feature called Fleets. Fleets, a portmanteau of the words ‘tweet’...
Police scouring social media, warn protest organisers against planning any demos
Police said on Thursday they had identified and warned certain members of the public who were planning to participate in demonstrations after the health minister...
More than 25% of Cypriots concerned about internet security
More than one in four Cypriots aged between 16 and 74, 28 per cent of the population, claimed to have avoided providing personal information to...
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to face same EU rules on hateful content
Facebook, Alphabet-owned YouTube, Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European...
Trump takes on social media, threatens with shut downs
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday, White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down...
Under Europe’s virus lockdown, social media proves a lifeline
Hundreds of millions of Europeans are getting to grips with weeks of a massively contracted existence under lockdown. The goal is clear and very serious...
Cyprus businesses fourth on EU list for utilising social media
Cyprus is number four on the list of EU countries with a high number of enterprises using social media, newly published Eurostat figures show. In...
Man remanded in Nicosia on suspicion of sending child porn material (Update)
A 38-year-old man from Nicosia was remanded for four days on Sunday in connection with a case concerning possession of child porn material. The man...